Would you be willing to live this life dependant on a machine or physical treatment? Why or why not?
2006-10-27 20:36:49 · 17 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Keep in mind that life support machines are not the ONLY machine I could be speaking of but one of many.
2006-10-27 20:40:55 · update #1
well im sure this will come as a big surprise from me but. ild love to live as long as i could to see my children grow up.
Debbera your questions are making me into a broken record lol
2006-10-27 20:44:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"How much do you love this life?" -- I have my good days and bad days...
"For what reasons would you choose to live it prolonged?" -- For my family I guess. See my ex remarried. Son grow up. Family duty, etc.
"Would you be willing to live this life dependent on a machine or physical treatment?" -- Is the machine portable of temporary? My Uncle lived with his dialysis treatments. So that's portable/freedom of movement.
To be in a bed - unaware AND tied to 1 or more machines - then no, because I am not there, I think. But even this could be temporary as many recover after months of coma. so I would expect the routine time allotted as determined by experience of the medical team.
After the determined time of experience then turn all machines off, as I am really gone then.
Man - I guess I better write that will, I have been putting it off (I'm a professional procrastinator). Too deep too late at night. Need comedy!!! Later.
2006-10-27 21:41:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No machines. What's the point of living if you're not even able to truly enjoy it? All you're doing is prolonging the inevitable, leaving someone hooked up to a machine to wither away. Look at that poor Shiavo (sp?) woman last year. Sure she was alive, but what kind of quality of life did she have? She couldn't speak, walk, move, eat, nothing. That's not alive, to me - that's mostly dead. Would I prolong my life? Probably not. I take things too much to heart, and lately I've been losing all faith in everything I used to hold dear. I'm sure I'll get it back, but the emotional ups and downs I go through almost daily are not something I'd wish on anyone. Certainly not something I could live with forever...
2006-10-27 20:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love this life with all my heart. I would not be willing to live this life dependant on a machine. As much as I love my life and my family, I also believe in quality of life. I've seen too many people wither and die, suffering loss of dignity, diminished mentality, and suffer agonies that made them beg to die. I would not prolong that existence for myself.
2006-10-27 20:41:37 · answer #4 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't want to be on any machine to continue living. I would be willing to do this to give my loved ones time to get used to the fact that I was dying. That would be the only reason.
2006-10-28 08:37:40 · answer #5 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is great The spiritual masters that we refer to as deities are not at the level we are. we are blessed and if we do good we can be reunited with the lord these deities cannot do that. If you live life in a healthy way then you need no machine. I take no medicine I run I play and eat just enough
2006-10-27 20:46:06 · answer #6 · answered by R C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would love to live longer to see what happens to my kids and grandchildren. And perhaps to explore other countries that I meant to visit but never did.
As long as I have my mental faculty and motor fuctions working, I would like to live longer, with or without the help of machines.
2006-10-27 20:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by oskeewow13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love my life very much
on a machine?.....No
then this would not be life....I would not want to be a burden on those who love me
Edit:
It depends on what my illness could be.....If I don't stand a snowball chance in (you know what.......lol)then I still stand that I would not want to be a burden
but,however,If I had a chance at a decent or somewhat decent life then I would keep going
2006-10-27 20:39:27 · answer #8 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
...I love my physical life very much. However, unlike most people, I'm not afraid to die. Matter of fact, short of suicide, I can't wait to get there. Must be because I have a clear understanding just where I would fit in in the spiritual realm.
...Your next question, if i'm brain dead or hardly registering synapse beeps then, please, turn the machine off.
2006-10-27 22:00:55 · answer #9 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would love to live forever if there was a science to do it.Why not?We are only beginning to explore the universe and in a hundred years, if people don't blow up the Earth first, we might be able to travel and explore places that could take an eternity.That is worth living forever to me.
2006-10-27 20:40:35 · answer #10 · answered by EasterBunny 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋